Friday, October 7, 2016

Today's lesson Gift Giving and Light Up Cards, was fabulous. Kristina Werner demonstrated how to put a card together using Chibi lights and it was the best turtorial on this process that I have seen and I think I will give it a try. I never bought any of the components because it looked so complicated. I chose to do a card demonstrated by Yana S., which was displaying a gift card on the front of the card in a pocket designed to hold it.

I began by using a background stamp and clear embossing the front of the card panel. I die cut the balloons from an Simon Says Stamp die, copic colored them and added Spectrum Noir Shimmer pen on top, but it is very hard to see here. I liked this idea and will use it in the future. I think having the gift card on the front of the card and incorporating it into the card design works well. A lot of steps but worth it if you really want to give it to someone special.

Very busy yesterday, this is the first time I have had a chance to post what I created for the class. The emphasis was on shaker cards. New techniques were posted, which were fantastic, but I didn't have most of the supplies needed. I did make a shaker card, though.

I kind of followed Kathy R.'s card, using fun foam. I have made shaker cards with fun foam before and it is easier, to me, then adhesive foam tape. The little snowflakes are iridescent and they appear pink in this picture, IRL they look the same color as the card. :) This is a die from Simon Says Stamp. The sequins are from Lucy's Little Things, the mix is called Apple Ice, her sequin combinations are so pretty.

Thanks for coming by, and I will probably have another post up today which will feature a card from Day 5 of this class.

Wednesday, October 5, 2016

Demonstrated in today's lesson were pop-up cards. Now that there are dies to make pop-ups, I will make them more often. I just don't have good x-acto knife skills. :) and all that measuring gave me a headache. lol I think I attempted one at some point, but gave up.......

I used Lawn Fawn Pop-Up dies, and they are really easy to use, didn't have any problems. The images are from MFT Jingle All the Way and colored with copics. I used patterned paper for the floor and wallpaper and a Memory Box die for the window. The rug is from MFT Merry Christmoose. The card really needed something in that space and the rug worked perfectly. I did enjoy making this and really want to make more.

Oh..here is the how I finished the outside of the card.

The card was bulky so I did make a band to help keep it closed. I used snowflake vellum for the band and an image from the same stamp set.

Today's lesson demonstrated interactive cards-sliders, pull tab and spinners. There are a lot of steps but once you have made a card with movement it gets easier. Actually, the step that took the most time was trying to get the penny into the slider, not that it was hard, but that I kept losing the penny!! I would drop it and it would roll to parts unknown in my craft room, I would get another one and it would happen again, and I really spent too much time looking for it. :) Anyway the next time I just grabbed 3 or 4 pennies and figured if I lost it again, they would be right there.

The stamp set is Lawn Fawn's Toboggan Together. I used the sled, packages, penguin and tree images. I copic colored them and used some super fine glitter on the package bows. I also used a Spectrum Noir glitter pen (love it!). I attached the twine to the sled and the penguin and it does actually look like the penguin is pulling the sled when the slider moves. I had a good time making this (except for the penny incidents) :)

Monday, October 3, 2016

Back again with my second card from the new Online Card class, Wild Card. This is a shape card. Debby Hughes made this card for today's class and since I already had the die, I figured -why not?

This a Wplus9 die, cut 2 times, the front is water colored and the second piece is used for the back. I love shape cards and really don't make them enough. I have had this die for awhile and this is the first time I have used it. It was cold in the house today, so this took awhile to dry :( , and the colors softened a great deal. I added some gold sequins and a banner embossed with gold.

A new Online Card Class started today. Wild Card! After the first day, I love how the class is going. Wonderful creations by all the instructors today. The emphasis was on Shapes, Openings and 3D cards. I have two posts today, I am waiting for the watercolor to dry on my first card. So this is the second card I made today.

This is a Gate Fold card, with the opening in the middle. I really liked the way it turned out and it really wasn't hard to do. I embossed the background in clear embossing powder. I Copic colored the tree then gold embossed the Christmas tree and sentiment.